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Author
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J G Ballard

Title
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The Wind from Nowhere
Year 1962
Publisher Penguin
ISBN 014002591X
 

 

Synopsis






The wind came from nowhere ...
a super-hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organised life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels and sewers - where they turned against each other in their desperate struggle to survive ...
 

 

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Artist's concept of an alien planet

 

 

Credit: NASA

Alien Asteroids
This artist's concept illustrates what the night sky might look like from a hypothetical alien planet in a star system with an asteroid belt 25 times as massive as the one in our own solar system. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence for such a belt around the nearby star called HD 69830, when its infrared eyes spotted dust, presumably from asteroids banging together. The telescope did not find any evidence for a planet in the system, but astronomers speculate one or more may be present.

In our solar system, anybody observing the skies on a moonless night far from city lights can see the sunlight that is scattered by dust in our asteroid belt. Called zodiacal light and sometimes the "false dawn," this light appears as a dim band stretching up from the horizon when the Sun is about to rise or set. The zodiacal light in the HD 69830 system would be 1,000 times brighter than our own, outshining even the Milky Way.

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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